John Murray Reynolds 2 hr 14 min read

The gleaming Viking lies on the launch platform, and in her control room the exhausted Gerry Norton and Steve Brent make their final check, commander and crew of the second attempt to reach Venus.

John Murray Reynolds's 1939 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of a voyage to Venus. Vivid, colorful golden-age pulp. Read it for a full-blooded pulp yarn of interplanetary exploration, where a daring expedition to the cloud-world encounters peril, wonder, and the fabled golden Amazons of Venus.

In its time

Published in 1939, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

2 hr 14 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).